First sentence: "In the first place, take a pack of Cards and shuffle them well three times over, and make your significator which queen you please (if a lady perform the operation herself, or a king if a gentleman); then proceed to lay them on a table, nine in a row, and wherever you find yourself placed, count nine cards every way, not forgetting your said significator, and then you will see what cards your significator comes in company with, and whatever it is, so it will happen to you."
Includes 1 woodcut
Date range taken from P. A. H. Brown's London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870, p. 68
Publisher's advertisement on p. [4] of wrapper
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: Blue pictorial paper wrappers. Hand-coloured cut on title page
First sentence: "In the first place, take a pack of Cards and shuffle them well three times over, and make your significator which queen you please (if a lady perform the operation herself, or a king if a gentleman); then proceed to lay them on a table, nine in a row, and wherever you find yourself placed, count nine cards every way, not forgetting your said significator, and then you will see what cards your significator comes in company with, and whatever it is, so it will happen to you." Includes 1 woodcut. Date range taken from P. A. H. Brown's London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870, p. 68. Publisher's advertisement on p. [4] of wrapper. Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: Blue pictorial paper wrappers. Hand-coloured cut on title page.